Fourteen industries
reported more than
100,000 injuries and
illnesses in 2004.
These 14 industries accounted for nearly 2 million injuries and illnesses, or
slightly more than 46 percent of the 4.3 million total.
Ten of the 14 industries were service-providing industries. These 10 industries
were hospitals; nursing and residential care facilities; general merchandise
stores; administrative and support services; ambulatory health care services;
merchant wholesalers, durable goods; supermarkets and other grocery stores;
full-service restaurants; merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods; and limitedservice eating places.
Hospitals led this group of industries, followed by nursing
and residential care facilities.
Numbers in thousands
* Hospitals
284.6
* Nursing and residential
care facilities
Transportation equipment
manufacturing
215.2
151.5
* General merchandise stores
146.1
* Administrative and
support services
134.4
* Ambulatory health care services
124.6
Food manufacturing
122.3
Fabricated metal product
manufacturing
* Merchant wholesalers,
durable goods
119.9
117.5
Building equipment contractors
117.2
* Supermarkets and other
grocery stores
114.1
* Full-service restaurants
113.3
* Merchant wholesalers,
nondurable goods
105.7
* Limited-service eating places
104.2
0
20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 220 240 260 280 300 320
* Indicates service-providing industry
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, November 2005